PS3's World Domination Plan: A Baby Step

Sony is making an incremental move toward its long-held goal: Turning the PlayStation 3 into an entertainment hub. A free update later this month will allow users to download mini-games and movie clips/trailers. That's nice. But it's still not nearly as useful as the Xbox 360 (MSFT), which downloads and plays entire movies. Not to mention Apple's iTunes(AAPL) and a host of other offerings.

Not all the time. Some article are just poorly written but worth talking about since it does bring up some points. Besides these are better than the 'comparison' posts that come on here every now and then.

i never cared for sales numbers on anything game related. I find sales numbers for homes to be far more interesting

but

March through May is really going to be interesting to see what happens.

With a 360price cut and the release of GTA and GT Prolouge it should really tell the truth. If the 360 is outsold WW and even in NA over the next 3 months there will be no spin that will save the 360 from certain lose

but if the 360 does indeed outsell the PS3 over the next 3months then its safe to say they will be ummmmm competive till the end of this gens life cycle

The PS3 has GTA4 and GT5 prologue, which already sold over a million preorders...and is a downloadable game from the PSN network....

GTA4 will sell good on both platforms...but will probably sell better on the PS3 since most people who played GTA3 played it on the PS2. GTA4 will sell PS3 hardware...so will MGS4 and even GT5 Prologue...

Its really curtains for the Xbox 360 till Gears of War 2 but by then Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 will be out to counter...and do not forget HOME..

Sony is working on a movie and music download service but they are going to do it right.

Remember MGS4 is gonna be huge...this is the game people have been waiting for for the PS3...also Final Fantasy 13 if it come out by christmas will be the knock out punch...but I think sony will save that one for 2009....little big planet will be enough of a knock out punch for christmas 2008.

The fact that they are entirely focused on downloading movies rather than purchasing on a disc (and in full HD). It's unfortunate that they overlooked some very important advantages the PS3 offers over the 360, such as full Divx certification, professional quality upscaling technology, native Blu-ray 2.0 support, etc. It also offers the ability to stream content off of computers connected either through LAN or Wireless (like the 360) which my friend Chris and his roommates have found very useful.

why would I pay for XBOX HD movies when I could just stream them from my PC on TVERSITY. I would assume that most people who are online with the xbox at least have a PC in their house? Maybe I am living in a fantasy land...but I know Im not close to rich and My PC is three years old, and I can watch anything I want on my XBOX through TVERSITY. Yes, my hat comes off to XBOX for OFFERING it, but it's not like its free. First you pay for internet, then you pay for the live service, then you pay for XBOX released HD movies?

this Arthur doesn't seem to know much about the gaming industry for starters,

hardware base sony's machine is superior in multiple areas the rest is just software in which all that could be taken care off given the right amount of time.

the 360 yeah does offer a greater service in live but, everything else the ps3 is superior.3% failure rate which is only match by the wii system, a quieter system, and no power brick packed in the box.

do we know why the 360 has movies for download? its obvious they don't have a built in high depth player to sway the casual to its machine.

also while the 360 does have the multi media in its o.s the hardware has issues.

a baby step now from sony isn't such a bad thing considering how fast or far the ps3 has come, heck even the psp too have been through many changes.

first off i would like to pin point out some major differences between the 360 and the ps3 and you guys tell me which is the better deal in the long run.

okay every ps3 is equipped with a hard drive, wifi, HDMI port, and a blu ray drive.

all of which can cost you more if you were to try and get that on a basic 360 console.

the elite's most intriguing feature is the size of its hard drive which currently sits pretty at 120 gb. yes it too has a built in HDMI port as well.

but thats just it every other model has one feature while lacking another in the process. does any of this really matter? well if you are a developer you want something standard so you wont have to cut around or compressed your work. so as far hardware goes the ps3 has a more standardize approach than the 360 does.

as far as the networks go xbox live is by far the superior service of the two hands down.

but my senses tells me that this Arthur isn't even considering the many changes the psn is going through and the many features coming in the coming months to add to the cost.

for example just look at the new upcoming 2.20 update? and the features it brings, thats a baby step in the right direction.

at the same time the psn features things like a web browser which by the way is said to have some improvements in this very same update as well. this is something live is missing, the 150 limit? which is only lifted when devs cry out loud, this is a problem the psn doesn't have as a result you get big games like warhawk wipeout HD, socom:confrontation among others that with that 150mb limit impose by live aren't possible on the 360 arcade module.

not trying to knock live or anything as it does offer a superior experience, BUT experience is the key word isn't it? live wasnt always this grand or glamorous , but in time it evolved into what today is the best online service on gaming consoles. and hats of to MS for setting the way of online gaming on consoles.

but on the same token the psn really didn't kick off until the ps3 arrived not too long ago which proves sony's commitment to online. guys look at how far we've come. in such a short time sure its been pretty ugly at times but the more i think about all this articles seem irrational to the point where everything the say its obvious and sound desperate about things they themselves didn't conduct good research on.

have this very same Arthur's work on the inside these articles would start fading.

look im not saying that everything sony is working on will come out perfect and everyone would flock the malls to grab a ps3, but things like home and the 2.4 F.W.update will further enhance the psn experience to comparable measures with live, watch and you'll see for yourselves.

as of now the video service will come when sony, who by the way owns like 3 (columbia,tristar,mgm) movie studios and tv studios and music labels/studios say its ready. in the meantime however sony's got hardware they got blu ray, and if thats a bady step, than i simply wonder what this is going to look like in two years time when the prices reach the mass market point.

also by this time the psn would have improved in many areas as well, ofcourse this is not to say that live wont either, but considering the psn is a free of charge service this can only be a good thing for us ps3 owners. not to mention many good games will be around for the picking as well.